Tag Archives: Deaths from coronavirus in India

Covid-19: what you need to know today

The fourth round of antibody tests in New Delhi, the results of which were made public on Wednesday during a court hearing, presents some interesting questions. It found that 25.5% of the roughly 15,000 people tested possessed Covid-19 antibodies. The tests were carried out in the third week of October. …

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Coronavirus LIVE updates: India count crosses 67 Lakh mark with a peak of 72,049 new cases; Dabbawalas allows travel in Mumbai locals

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told coronavirus vaccine developers on Tuesday that it wants at least two months of safety data before authorizing emergency use, a requirement that would likely push the availability of any US vaccine after the November 3 presidential election. A senior administration …

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Covid-19 toll in India exceeds 100,000

The death toll from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India surpassed the 100,000 mark on Friday, a grim milestone that comes exactly seven months from the day the first batch of cases was reported in the country. India became the third country in the world to cross this milestone: only …

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Covid-19: what you need to know today

Science published a paper Wednesday based on one of the world’s largest contact tracing exercises. The study, covering 85,000 primary cases, was conducted in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu by a team of researchers led by Ramanan Laxminarayan of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. The study tracked …

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Covid-19: data dilemma after the third serosurvey

The prevalence of antibodies to the Sars-Cov-2 virus in Delhi fell by more than four percentage points in a month, officials told the Delhi high court citing the recent serosurvey, yielding an epidemiological finding that now skews estimates of how many people may have been exposed to Covid-19 in the …

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